Argentine university professors will protest again – 2024-09-20 13:25:18

Argentine university professors will protest again
 – 2024-09-20 13:25:18

Javier Milei, president of Argentina. Trade unions representing teachers and non-teaching staff of the University of Buenos Airesthe largest higher institution in Argentinadecided this Tuesday to call for a new strike to demand the Government of Javier Miley a salary increase and a larger budget for higher education. The strike was called for Thursday and … Read more

Milei succeeds in preventing the increase in pensions from passing in Congress

Milei succeeds in preventing the increase in pensions from passing in Congress

Buenos Aires. Argentine President Javier Milei scored a political victory on Wednesday after securing support in Congress from allied sectors to prevent the passage of an increase in retirement benefits that he had recently vetoed. The most combative opposition failed in its attempt to gather the necessary votes to insist on the law, which was … Read more

Police repress new protest by pensioners in Buenos Aires

Police repress new protest by pensioners in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires. Some 30 injured and wounded, among them journalists, was the result of the second repression in a week against retirees, who in a peaceful march, like the one they carry out every Wednesday, arrived at the outskirts of Congress and found a cordon of hundreds of police, gendarmes, naval prefects, as if ready … Read more

Milei heads far-right conclave in Argentina

Milei heads far-right conclave in Argentina

Buenos AiresWhile President Javier Milei was inaugurating the Third Regional Meeting of the Madrid-Río de la Plata Forum 2024, which brings together the top representatives of the international far right at the Libertad Palace – formerly the Néstor Kirchner Cultural Center – the leader of the Rural Society Nicolás Pino received a low-power package bomb … Read more

Argentine police repress protest by pensioners in Buenos Aires

Argentine police repress protest by pensioners in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires. A brutal repression by the Federal Police against a demonstration led by the Union of Retired Workers in Struggle (UTJL) and organizations, left dozens of elderly people beaten, who had pepper spray thrown in their faces with a new chemical that causes burns, when they rejected the veto of the president, Javier Milei, … Read more

Milei cancels her tour to Mexico due to opinion poll

Milei cancels her tour to Mexico due to opinion poll

Buenos Aires. Just days before boarding a private flight to Mexico, Argentine President Javier Milei cancelled what was to be his 14th international tour, following the publication of an opinion poll by Zuban Córdoba that revealed the anger caused in the population by his continuous trips paid for with taxpayers’ money. Milei had planned to … Read more

Argentine Church denounces a “wounded homeland” due to Milei’s policies

Argentine Church denounces a “wounded homeland” due to Milei’s policies

Buenos Aires. ““Our country is wounded, stripped of everything, half dead” was one of the phrases of Archbishop Jorge García Cuevas, in his homily this Wednesday during the mass celebrated in the Church of San Cayetano, in Liniers, municipality of Buenos Aires, where since Tuesday hundreds of faithful maintained a vigil to ask and thank … Read more

Milei’s security proposal raises human rights alert

Milei’s security proposal raises human rights alert

Buenos Aires. The government of far-right President Javier Milei has sent a bill to Congress to allow the armed forces to participate in internal security, in the fight “against terrorism,” in the control of people and vehicles that may be considered suspicious, and to carry out “arrests in flagrante delicto.” In addition, it contemplates the … Read more

Argentina and Chile will not recognize Maduro’s victory in Venezuela

Argentina and Chile will not recognize Maduro’s victory in Venezuela

Buenos Aires. Argentina will not recognize a new government headed by Maduro in Venezuela, said President Javier Milei, who, without the official results in the Bolivarian Republic having been announced, said that the president lost the elections and should admit defeat. “DICTATOR MADURO, OUT Venezuelans have chosen to end the communist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro. … Read more